Genesis is a popular WordPress framework that empowers you to conveniently and rapidly create amazing sites using WordPress CMS. Genesis offers an SEO optimised and secure foundation that takes WordPress to a whole new level.
The framework has been constantly updated to mirror the best practices for coding and to ensure that it is always compatible with the latest version of WordPress CMS. Moreover, it can be used to build almost any type of a WordPress-powered website including e-commerce stores, portfolios, informative blogs and much more.
In this blog post we are going to share a list of Genesis e-commerce themes that can help you to build a high quality and high performance online store using Genesis framework.
1. Start
Start is yet another popular Genesis WordPress child theme integrated with WooCommerce plugin to help you build high quality and high performance e-commerce stores. The theme has a vertical scrolling feature on the homepage and combines it with a full-width image slider. Thanks to the integration of different elements to populate your web pages, Start does wonders for your website to capture the attention of your visitors. The gallery section and icon system allow you to bring your best features to the forefront. Built on bootstrap, the theme makes your site look presentable on pretty much every screen size.
Key features of Start include:
- Offers a variety of page templates to choose from
- Equipped with a scrolling testimonials slider to persuade your audience to use your services
- Comes with advanced theme options to give you complete control over the design and features
- Optimized for search engines to help your site rank high in SERPs
- Browser compatible – IE9, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and more
- Has clean and powerful code base
Price: $49
2. Envy Pro WP Theme
Envy is a modern, flexible and well-crafted Genesis WordPress theme that is developed by Jon Barratt. The theme has managed to receive 5-star ratings and comes with an in-built Genesis v2.2 accessibility support. Envy is further improved by StudioPress’s Genesis plugins letting you change sidebars and has integrated with a subscriber form with a variety of services like MailChimp.
Key features of Envy include:
- Comes translation ready and is 100% fully responsive
- Has a full-screen home slider i.e. Genesis Responsive Slider
- Offers 3 menu locations, 5 different layout options and 6 vibrant color styles
- Has home featured products and posts
- Comes integrated with WooCommerce via Genesis Connect
Price: $55
3. Lifestyle
Lifestyle is a light, fresh and impressive magazine WordPress theme developed by the StudioPress team. The theme’s understated design and an array of features make it also ideal for lifestyle or health blogs. However, thanks to its flexible and muted design, it can be used to create a variety of websites. Lifestyle comes with a range of clean design options and smart layouts that allow you to express yourself with visual content and everything in between.
Key features of Lifestyle include:
- Comes with 4 homepage widget areas that can be easily customized to fit your business
- Has a customizable header and lets you upload your own logo with a single click of a button
- Equipped with a theme customizer that enables you to tweak the look and feel of your site
- Lets you choose from a wide range of premade templates including landing, blog, archives and default page
- Comes with an advanced theme options panel to make it convenient to switch the look of your site without having to touch a single line of code
- Offers 6 subtle color schemes to choose from
Price: $99.95 (Genesis theme + Framework)
4. Daily Dish
Daily Dish is a powerful, versatile and inviting WordPress theme designed primarily for those who want a clean design for their food-related site. However, its beautiful design and flexible layout persuades you to use it for almost any website. With an array of widget areas integrated into the Daily Dish templates (including one placed before the site header area), it offers a plethora of opportunities for you to place dynamic elements in and around your content.
Key features of Daily Dish include:
- Comes integrated with 6-page layouts
- Has a custom header and a variety of layout options
- Has been coded using HTML5
- 100% fully responsive and highly customizable
- Equipped with advanced theme options to help you tweak the design of the site
Price: $99.95 (Genesis theme + Framework)
5. Nova
Nova is a well-designed, developer friendly and free WordPress theme with a flat, monochromatic design. The theme is developed by Zig Zag press and boasts of a simple and plain design. Equipped with interactive buttons and images and a sticky header that moves with the web page, Nova is a perfect theme to capture the attention of your visitors. Nova beautifully combines a minimalism style and modern flat design.
Key features of Nova include:
- Comes with 20 predefined color skins
- Offers a boxed layout to divide your content into different sections to make it interactive
- Has 5-page templates (including portfolio, gallery, landing page, blog, and archive) and a nifty hidden sidebar menu
- Integrated with 11 different shortcodes to tweak the design of your website
- Has a customizable widget area to place social media buttons or contact information
Price: Free
6. Aspire Pro
Aspire Pro is an impressive, bold, multipurpose and third-party WordPress theme developed and maintained by appfinite.com. The theme beautifully boasts of a parallax scrolling effect that leaves your visitors awestruck and showcases the most important information on the homepage.
Key features of Aspire Pro include:
- Has 3 different layout options to choose from
- Equipped with 15 custom homepage widget locations, an unlimited color changer, and 3 page templates
- Allows you to add featured images
- Comes with a theme customizer to let you change the look and feel of your site
- Translation ready and 100% fully responsive
Price: $99.95 (Genesis theme + Framework)
7. Showcase Pro
Showcase Pro is yet another third-party, multipurpose WordPress theme developed and maintained by JT Gauke. Showcase Pro, as the name suggests, showcases your content, services and products in a minimalistic and clean setting to avoid distracting your visitors from the most important information.
Key features of Showcase Pro include:
- Has 3 layout options including full-width, sidebar right and sidebar left
- Comes with an inbuilt theme customizer to enable you to tweak the content, background image and colors
- Offers 4 page templates (landing pages, author, team and pricing) with a plain sans serif typography
- Equipped with 4 widget areas in the footer and 3 widget areas on the homepage to show added information of the site
Price: $99.95 (Genesis theme + Framework)
8. Parallax Pro
Parallax Pro is developed to help you tell a story on your site with the help of a parallax scrolling effect. As the name suggests, Parallax Pro boasts of a well-designed parallax design to keep your content in peculiar narrative order. The 3D parallax background images and long vertical scrolling homepage layout allow you to visualize your brand while building the credibility and trust in your audience.
Key features of Parallax Pro include:
- Offers 5 color styles to choose from
- Has a custom background and a custom header
- Comes with a variety of footer widgets to choose from
- Allows you to create beautiful landing pages
- 100% fully responsive and offers 3 different layout options
- Has advanced theme options
Price: $99.95 (Genesis theme + Framework)
9. Fearless
Fearless is a completely responsive, beautiful and minimalist WordPress photography theme that makes your website fit every screen size and device. The theme allows you to showcase your best work on your homepage to captivate your visitors. Fearless gives you a plethora of options to decide how you want to display your work, thanks to multiple gallery modes integrated into the theme.
Key features of Fearless include:
- Integrated with a full-screen slideshow tool on your homepage
- Comes with a wide variety of gallery modes to choose from including blog style, lightbox, slideshow, mosaic, filmstrip, and masonry grid
- Comes with an integrated e-commerce functionality
- Offers an array of widgets
Price: $79
10. Glam Pro
Glam Pro is a highly visual, bold and popular third-party theme developed and maintained by Restored 316 Designs. The theme enables you to tweak the look and feel of your website and customize the color scheme by choosing desirable colors from an array of color options. Glam Pro is designed to build business blogs, personal portfolios, marketing websites, photography blogs, fashion blogs and much more.
Key features of Glam Pro include:
- Comes with 3 different layouts to choose from i.e. full width, sidebar/content, and content/sidebar
- Lets you create beautiful landing pages and category pages
- Equipped with an assortment of widgets that make room for social media buttons, contact information, recent posts, and advertisements
- Integrated with theme options and a theme customizer
- Allows you to add featured images
Price: $129.95 (Genesis theme + Framework)
11. Jessica
Jessica is a professional, lightweight, and aesthetically stylish third-party WordPress theme developed and maintained by Bloom Blog Shop. The theme is basically designed to build feature-rich and dynamic e-stores and online retail stores. Jessica is equipped with an array of advanced features to make it convenient and easy for you to build e-commerce websites with popular e-commerce plugins such as WP e-commerce, iThemes, and WooCommerce.
Key features of Jessica include:
- Lets you choose from 3 different page layouts including full-width, sidebar right and sidebar left
- Has 6 accent color options including red, purple, pink, green, brown, and blue
- Equipped with 5 footer widget areas and 10 homepage widget areas
Price: $59.95
12. Fremedy
Fremedy is a multipurpose, social media friendly, responsive and easy to use WordPress theme ideal for creating informational websites, personal portfolios, and personal blogs. The theme has been developed for both Genesis framework and Thesis 2. Thanks to its advanced theme options, you can customize the look of your website as per your needs and requirements.
Key features of Fremedy include:
- Lets you quickly setup your site with the help of 2 different layout styles i.e. full-width and boxed
- Has 4 color styles to choose from including pink, red, grayscale and blue
- Equipped with 2 site-wide widget areas
- Integrated with a customizable homepage slider
Price: Free
13. Smooth Post 2
Smooth Post 2 is an aesthetically appealing, versatile and powerful magazine style WordPress theme which is well-suited for creating informative blogs, news sites and traditional business sites. The theme does an amazing job of guaranteeing your newest posts do not get lost on your site, thanks to an intuitive design and effective layout.
Key features of Smooth Post 2 include:
- Gives access to the Photoshop PSD files used in the theme
- Has 5 different color schemes to choose from
- Has a sticky horizontal navigation bar
- Fully responsive and retina ready
- Fully compatible with major browsers
- Uses custom shortcodes to allow you to customize the look and functionality of your website
- Integrated with a beautiful landing page template
Price: $99
14. Richmond
Richmond is yet another popular and powerful WordPress theme ideal for creating a wide variety of websites. The theme is designed to give a lot of room to your content while keeping your site tidy and uncluttered. If you are looking for a simple yet impressive design for your website, Richmond is worth a try.
Key features of Richmond include:
- Has a highly customizable homepage that has a space for a subscriber form, feature list, about section and welcome message
- Fully responsive design layout
- Has a series of shortcodes and landing page template
- Equipped with an attractive blog layout, portfolio section, social media icons, stylish contact form and testimonial templates
Price: $99
15. Modern Blogger Pro
Modern Blogger Pro is a great theme that was initially featured on StudioPress but is actually a third-party theme which can be purchased from Pretty Darn Cute Design’s site. The theme has an aesthetically appealing design with a unique layout developed by an experienced and reliable Genesis Developer. Thanks to the integrated of WooCommerce plugin, it allows you to create beautiful and feature-rich e-commerce sites on WordPress.
Key features of Modern Blogger Pro include:
- Offers 6 page layouts
- Has multiple color options with a variety of backgrounds
- Comes with the ad space PSD files
- Equipped with a custom widget area that is displayed above your blog posts on your homepage
- A great subscription widget that can be placed anywhere you want
I hope you’ve found the right theme for your WordPress development project. If you need help with setting up a WordPress site or enhancing your existing online presence, please get in touch with us.
Author: John Miller
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